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A California wind farm paid the Oregon Zoo to raise 12 condor chicks against a federal permit that lets its turbines kill two condors in 30 years, and so far the blades have killed none anywhere in the country, because most condors wear GPS, and the turbines stop spinning before the bird arrives
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (532+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...
Crows can memorise the face of a person who wronged them, hold the grudge for as long as 17 years, and teach it to their own chicks and flockmates, so that birds who never even saw the original offence will still harass the person on sight.
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (119+ words) A grudge held by a bird can outlast a human marriage—and spread through an entire flock like generational trauma. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Related – if you love learning about our animal kingdom, check out this video we created…...
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to 3,500 Cape Cod homes while sixth-graders sat a standardized exam in the dark down the road
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (188+ words) When a conservation success story literally catches fire, the utilities caught in the middle have to choose between power and wildlife. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The osprey is one of American conservation’s proudest comebacks, a fish-hunting raptor with a…...
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...
Researchers following 196 radio-tagged sea otters off California found that otters using rocks, shells and other objects as tools could tackle larger prey and suffered less tooth damage when their preferred food became scarce.
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (626+ words) Tool use doesn't just make sea otters more efficient hunters—it may be what keeps them alive when their preferred prey disappears. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Sea otters are famous…...
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies — and the tiny solar-powered device may finally reveal how an insect navigates a migration route it has never flown before
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (409+ words) Every autumn, a monarch butterfly born in Canada or the northern United States does something that should be impossible. Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Every autumn, a monarch butterfly born in Canada or the northern United States does something that…...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder — shown paintings they had never seen, they sorted Cezanne with the Monets and Braque with the Picassos.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (402+ words) The birds had grasped something deeper than memorization—a visual principle that let them recognize artistic style in works they'd never encountered. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit We are not psychologists…...
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry. It is also a long-distance family signal, helping scattered pride members find one another while warning rival lions that the territory is already claimed
1+ week, 1+ day ago (471+ words) Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere out in the dark, a sound arrives with no obvious source. It seems to come up through the ground as much as through the air, and it does not fade so much as roll…...